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The curious case of the canceled column store criteria

On January 21, 2011, Posted by , In Mike Pilcher, With No Comments

Did Mike Stonebraker change his mind about what the criteria are from a column store database (CDBMS) or did someone spill coffee on Vertica’s WordPress install and short out his post? Either way I was surprised to see Mike’s blog — in which he opined on the criteria for column…

Standing up for the real column stores

On January 14, 2011, Posted by , In Mike Pilcher, With No Comments

I am delighted to see Curt Monash has entered the debate on Mike Stonebraker’s *Real Column Store* blog post. I’ve already responded to Mike but Curt’s post brings up some other things worthy of consideration: >There are some good things about [Mike Stonebraker’s] post, and some not-so-good. The worst paragraph…

Challenging the column store criteria

On January 7, 2011, Posted by , In Mike Pilcher, With No Comments

*The following is a response to Mike Stonebraker’s recent blog post,* Will the Real Column Stores Please Stand Up? *I originally left it as a comment to that post but so far it has not been published. I can’t imagine they have a very long moderation queue or that Mike…